June 21, 2022
You know those really good sleeps?
If you’re lucky, you’ve probably experienced it at least once in your life.
With 8 hours of uninterrupted rest, you feel that easeful float-into-REM-cycle, and then a gentle arrival back to waking consciousness as the sun peeks through your window. You’re out of bed even before your alarm goes off, ready to tackle the day with a rainbows-and-unicorns attitude that your coworkers will probably hate you for.
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June 03, 2022
Inflammation can so easily creep up on you.
It often starts as a low-level discomfort – a little fatigue, trouble sleeping, some new unexplained food sensitivity. The symptoms are mild enough, so you chalk it up to exhaustion or stress and hope that it will pass.
But it often doesn’t pass. It often gradually worsens over time. Why?
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July 30, 2020
Several exciting studies suggest that curcumin, an anti-inflammatory extract from turmeric, is effective in treating major depression, especially in a subset of people with atypical depression.
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November 13, 2018
Author: Dr. Bridget
SHOPPING AND HARVEST LIST
FOR HEALTHY DETOXIFICATION AND MINIMIZING HARM FROM SMOKE-RELATED POLLUTANTS
1. Broccoli sprouts– contain some of THE most detoxification-stimulating and anti-carcinogenic compounds
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November 13, 2018
Author: Lily Mazzarella
Protecting yourself from smoke, with things you may have in your house:
First, keep your house a safe zone. If your house has old drafty windows like mine you'll want to run your hands over the closures to feel if air is coming in. If so, use weather stripping, tape, or draft blockers (sand in stocking works) to shore up the window or door.⠀
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August 02, 2018
Author: Lily Mazzarella Observations gleaned through a decade + of guiding clients through anti-inflammatory/elimination diets.You’ve been working hard at eating clean, doing an anti-inflammatory/elimination diet (like the Summer Inflammation Soother), and you’re feeling pretty damn good.
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March 27, 2018
Author: Dr. BridgetAnyone who knew me before I became a naturopathic doctor would immediately know why I’m passionate about treating allergies and other histamine related issues—I had a serious problem with environmental allergies.
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January 10, 2018
Author: Bonnie NedrowMost people tend to think that they need to eat frequently to have energy. However, if we eat every time we need fuel, we lose our ability to burn body fat.
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January 07, 2018
Author: Lily MazzarellaCongratulations! If you’re reading this, you made it through the holiday season and the darkest days of winter (relatively) intact.
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January 05, 2018
Author: Lily MazzarellaHow to eat for nervous system and adrenal stability.
Every day our digestive tracts are disassembling the outside world and providing raw materials to make our cell membranes and tissues.
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November 13, 2017
Author: Dr. BridgetYou are probably feeling it – a scratchy throat, dry cough and irritated eyes or that whoozy, nauseous feeling from breathing something you shouldn’t be.
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June 30, 2017
Author: Dr. BridgetFood sensitivity can contribute to gastrointestinal inflammation and systemic inflammatory burden. It can be an underlying cause of nagging symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, sinus congestion, chronic pain, headaches, and weight gain.
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March 21, 2017
Author: Lily MazzarellaThe liver is hot, metabolically speaking. And very active: on any given day, it is performing over 500 functions for us. We all know that it’s on the liver to get us out of a pinch when we drink too much, but did you know that the liver contains a unique enzyme system that co-evolved with plants, and that this system can detoxify just about everything we encounter now?
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June 27, 2016
Author: Lily Mazzarella
If you are a person in the world these days, a person who speaks to other people, or walks through the vitamin section in your supermarket, who turns on a computer or glances at magazines in the dentist’s office, it is likely you know what a buzzword “inflammation” has become.
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May 02, 2016
Author: Lily MazzarellaShopping for organic, whole plant skincare? Here’s a quick guide to whole plant ingredients and how they impact your skin.
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May 02, 2016
Author: Lily MazzarellaThis spring at Farmacopia we are welcoming a new line of skin care with the highest standards for organic, biodynamic, raw, unrefined whole plant ingredients. Learn from Laurel, owner and founder of Laurel Whole Plant Organics, how to feed your skin with the nutrients it needs…
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October 20, 2015
Author: Lily Mazzarellaneither plant nor animal nor mineral…….Get to know a mushroom!
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July 29, 2015
Author: Lily MazzarellaBelly fat: it comes on stealthily, accumulating as we go about our fast-paced and stressful lives, perhaps not eating as well as we know we should, not exercising as much as we used to. It creeps up during hormonal transitions (puberty, postpartum, menopause & andropause), or after a long illness. And, seemingly suddenly we are stuck with it—for belly fat is notoriously difficult to lose.
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July 06, 2015
Author: Lily MazzarellaWe’re having a heat wave. There’s no AC in northern California, and the house is 89 at bedtime.
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April 22, 2015
Author: Lily Mazzarella
Remember high school health class?
In suburban New Jersey in the late 80’s, we weren’t learning anything particularly useful or compelling—even the sex ed wasn’t titillating. Now that I’m a teacher of physiology, and health practitioner talking to clients about their bodies, I’m always struck by how interested people are in how their insides work, especially children and teens.
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April 07, 2015
Author: Lily MazzarellaThe health benefits of olive oil have been touted for millennia, and as with so many plant-based medicines, recent research confirms what the ancients (and my grandmother, Benigna Mazzarella, who died at the ripe old age of 108) knew.
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April 02, 2015
Don’t run away just yet. It’s not to be demonized; after all coffee in its purest form isn’t all that bad. As anyone who’s ever been in the position to defend their dear java would know, coffee beans are chock-full of free-radical fighting antioxidants and the nervous system stimulating effects of caffeine goes a long way in providing a mental uplift, energy shift and, for some, migraine relief.
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March 18, 2015
Author: Lily MazzarellaI’ve never been a hardcore detox person. For the past 15 years I’ve seen scores of people “cleanse” and become depleted and feel worse, or feel great for 10 days of juice and rice cakes and then rebound—hard—into (dis)comfort foods and crappy habits.
But we’ve all heard it: there’s flame retardant in our breast milk, PCBs in our subcutaneous fat, and pesticide accumulating in our thyroid glands. Our fingers absorb BPA from store receipts, and our livers are being wrecke...
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February 18, 2015
Author: Lily MazzarellaOur body is an intricate network of systems designed to keep us alive and keep our genes proliferating. When any of these systems are taxed too heavily our body responds by preserving self above all else. What this means for us is some of our more “pleasureable” aspects of life get sacrificed like – sex, sleep, energy and mood, in favor of pure survival.
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December 11, 2014
Author: Lily MazzarellaBitters have been used pan-culturally, from Africa to Eurasia, as a natural tool to enhance digestion and appetite since our most primordial times. It would not be uncommon, for instance, to catch your primitive self nibbling on a bit of greenery along your post-hunt journey or rummaging in the village foliage after indulging in some flame-broiled bison. We humans learned very quickly that these bitter tasting shrubs growing all around often help ease our tummies after ...
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May 16, 2014
Author: Lily MazzarellaSummer is upon us, and we are gearing up for a favorite summertime appearance: the cherry. Rainier, Lambert, Balton, Montmornecy, and perhaps the reigning champion–Bing. These luscious, red, juicy, stone fruits have always dazzled us with their flavor and beauty, but now we have even more reason to love them.
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